Armada Lodge drummer John Penman on taking a deliberate pay cut to buy back brain space, whiteboard systems, letting ad data pick your song's best section,...
Art of Dying frontman Jonny Hetherington on keeping the band's new album off streaming entirely — the maths that never recoups, the 1,000-stream rule, AI fatigue,...
Filmmaker Zandrew Sonnemaker and Detective Frog's Jacob Riddle on making ‘La Salope,’ a silent film shot across six locations in 48 hours, scored with grindcore and...
Chris Krawczyk of Little Ghosts Books (Canada's first horror bookstore) on reading 600-plus monster erotica submissions, beating burnout by paying authors, three years of publishing with...
Singer-songwriter Greg Amici (Big Honey, Tragicomic) on the vocal polyp that ended his band, sixteen years in film, coming back on his own dime with no...
Horror author Chip McCabe (Creed Woodhouse, Kindred) returns for Part 2: extreme horror vs occult folk horror, writing novels while raising four kids, AI-generated books, paid...
John W. Sharpe tells Lance Marwood why he tried to quit Dave Fowler's memoir three times — and why Dave refused.
Journalist-turned-novelist Chip McCabe (aka Creed Woodhouse) talks publishing's gatekeepers, self-releasing his debut horror novel Kindred under a pen name, and the five-week regimen that finally silenced...
Sean Martin of The Quarantined is an Iraq War veteran turned grunge frontman whose album Aversion to Normalcy — recorded at Nashville's Blackbird Studios — has...
Mark Winters left aerospace engineering to build a music career from scratch. Now four albums and 107 tour dates deep, he joins MAKE // BREAK to...
Samantha Willman is co-founder of Romanticon, a literary magazine reviving Romantic thought for the modern moment. She talks building community from scratch, why sincerity is the...
Peter Mahoney (Workers Comp, Unwell) gets honest about grief, DIY ethics, and what it really costs to keep playing.
From vampires to cookie banners, the “threshold doctrine” reveals why we keep granting access to what can harm us.
A childhood nightmare, Polyvagal Theory, and mythic echoes reveal why terror turns the body mute
TubeFreeks frontman Paul Van Valkenburgh joins Lance Marwood on MAKE // BREAK to talk band longevity, touring setbacks, vocal coaching, and how co-writing sharpened the new...
Why you see faces in shadows and wood grain: pareidolia is your brain’s survival system misfiring, and it shaped centuries of folklore.
‘Our Share of Night’ (Hogarth) stands as evidence that horror, when executed with this level of ambition and skill, transcends genre to become literature in the fullest...
A woman in white. A forest road. One detail that tells you it’s not human. This essay follows the backward-footed monster across global folklore and asks...
Testament founder Eric Peterson joins MAKE // BREAK to talk Para Bellum, four decades of thrash, touring burnout, AI and creativity, and how horror movies, strange...
"How the cult of infinite possibility turned my ADHD into a feature, then a weapon. On productivity culture, complexity, and survival in the maze."
Kelsey Maree Dower is a symphonic metal vocalist/composer behind “Rage” and the upcoming Rebirth project. On MAKE // BREAK with Lance Marwood, she talks orchestral writing,...
You don’t need another “content strategy.” You need your songs to stop disappearing the second they hit Spotify. A waterfall release doesn’t fix everything, but it...
Little Bihlman unpacks touring with dUg Pinnick in Grinder Blues, why technique serves songs not ego, and the Emmy-winning drummer's pivot to his solo chapter on...
Aaron Farrell on discipline, creative survival, and killing perfectionism. The Welsh writer unpacks fatherhood, martial arts as writing method, and Barcelona on MAKE // BREAK.
Veteran bassist and producer Dave Fowler (Dolly Parton, Dr. John) joins Lance to talk craft, humility, and building a lasting career in the music business.
Frontman Garrett Barbuto (Garrett Barbuto & The Hot Pursuit) joins MAKE // BREAK to talk rock revival, DIY grit, and finding your rhythm between passion and...
